Multiline toStructure()

The CMS Questions
1

It seems that toStructure() can’t handle multiline data, so what’s the best solution to overcome this issue?

At the moment I have something like this:

<?php foreach($page->overview()->toStructure() as $overview): ?>
    <section class="post">
        <h3><?php echo $overview->heading() ?></h3>
        <?php echo $overview->text()->kirbytext() ?>
    </section>
<?php endforeach ?>

And the page looks like this

Overview:

- heading: first header
  text: some text, which should be multiline data.

- heading: 2nd header
  text: but in some of these I NEED tables...!

Do you have a better idea? What did I miss here?

2

You can do it like this:

text: >
    single paragraph
text: |
   multiple paragraphs

   bla blablab akdjajf daj jdjf jfjd fjdj jfdj
3

Thank you very much, texnixe.
This works great. But I still need tables in some of them. Having the code directly in the .txt doesn’t work like anyplace else.
What is the smartest way for this?

4

That’s strange. Are you using kirbytext() to output the content?

5

Yes. It looks very funny, because then everything gets collapsed into the first <section>.

6

Have you made sure that your indentation is correct?

-
  title: >
    bla bla bla
  text: |
    |  1 | 2  |  3 | 4  | 5  |
    |---|---|---|---|---|
    |  1 |  2 | 4  | 6  |  7 |
    |  1 |  3 |  4 | 5  |  6 |
    |  1 |  3 |  5 |  7 |  8 |
    
    bla bla bla bla blub
7

:worried: I took a html table…
well well, this topic is solved.

8

HTML tables should work as well …

BTW.: If you want to use markdown table syntax, the markdown.extra option needs to be enabled in your config.php.

9

Your table is working, the HTML table wasn’t.
Bug or some other stuff going on?

10

I put an HTML table in and it worked, so not sure this is a bug. I’ve put this into a file:

-
  title: >
   bla bla bla
  text: |
    <table>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>1</th>
          <th>2</th>
          <th>3</th>
          <th>4</th>
          <th>5</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>4</td>
          <td>6</td>
          <td>7</td>
          </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>4</td>
          <td>5</td>
          <td>6</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>5</td>
          <td>7</td>
          <td>8</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    
    some more text here ...
11

Ok, it works. It is just VERY picky with the correct intendation.

12

Yep, the YAML syntax is very strict about relative indentation. :slight_smile:
If you use the structure field, you don’t have to care about that stuff though as Kirby will indent it properly for you.

13

As future reference:

A Markdown table does not allow row or cell spanning as well as putting multi-line text in a cell. The first row is always the header followed by an extra line with dashes “-” and optional colons “:” for forcing column alignment.